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...Detroit News is one of two daily papers in the big U.S. city badly hit by the economic downturn. It is unlikely that it can merge with the larger Detroit Free Press, which is owned by Gannett. It is hard to see what would be in it for Gannett. And with the fortunes of Detroit getting worse each day, cutting back the number of days the paper is delivered would not save enough money to keep the paper open...
...123rd president earlier this month. Huey was chosen in a closed process from a pool of self-nominated candidates that traditionally includes some of the Law School’s top students. Speaking with The Crimson in the Law Review’s Gannett House headquarters, Huey said she hoped to maintain the journal’s standards of scholarship. “My main goal is to keep doing what my predecessors have been doing—the leadership team from last year have done a great job on both the scholarship side and the community side...
...some illegal aliens, according to media reports. “On immigration, there’s been an agreement between [President-elect Barack] Obama and [Senator John] McCain to move forward on that,” Senate Majority leader Harry Reid said in an interview with the Gannett News Service last weekend. Reid, a Democrat from Nevada, has pushed the Senate to enact comprehensive immigration reform in recent years. Last June, amid a fevered debate and nation-wide protests, the Senate failed to pass a massive immigration reform act that included a provision allowing public colleges to offer in-state...
...remember The New York Times coming to Gannett House,” said Marisa Chun, a former classmate of Obama’s, referring to the site of the Law Review’s offices. “I think that what he got out of Harvard was enhanced credibility in terms of his gravitas, his qualifications. All of us that go to Harvard benefit from that, but for him, it was extra special given everything he had accomplished...
...universities is served greatly by a diversity of thought and opinion. Often this is most perceptibly reflected in student journalism. This year, though, censorship of the student presses at many prominent schools threatened to compromise the free speech environment that is essential to a quality education. For example, Gannett, the well-known publisher of USA Today, entered into talks with the president of Colorado State to discuss a business partnership with their school paper. Partnerships with student publications and for-profit corporations are dangerous. Such deals will most likely serve to limit the leadership opportunities for student journalists and restrict...